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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lewisham South Constituency – Biography of Gough

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lewisham South Constituency – Biography of Gough

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lewisham South

    CANDIDATE : Gough

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. F. H. Gough, born at Kasauli, India, was educated at Cheam School, Osborne, and Dartmouth. After serving three years in the Royal Nayy, he took up farming and horse-breeding in India in 1920. Returning to England in 1922, he became associated with Lloyd’s and joined the Territorial Army. He won the M.C. in 1943 while commanding 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron. He was taken prisoner at Arnhem, escaped and joined ‘he Americans in Bavaria in 1945. He is a director of six companies.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Poplar Constituency – Biography of Purkis

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Poplar Constituency – Biography of Purkis

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Poplar

    CANDIDATE : Purkis

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. F. Purkis is 29, and has lived in Poplar nearly all his life. Educated at the Coopers’ Company’s School, Bow, London University College, and Westminster Training College, he is a teacher at Walthamstow. At Poplar he is a Methodist local preacher, superintendent of the Methodist Mission Sunday School, and a scoutmaster.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southwark Constituency – Biography of Bent

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southwark Constituency – Biography of Bent

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Southwark

    CANDIDATE : Bent

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. S. P. Bent, a war-time Army captain, and now a clerk, has been prominent in leading Southwark tenants in their movements for better housing. He won scholarships from a Southwark elementary school to London University, and worked for a time in the architects department of the borough council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wandsworth Putney Constituency – Biography of Linstead

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wandsworth Putney Constituency – Biography of Linstead

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wandsworth Putney

    CANDIDATE : Linstead

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. Linstead became M.P. for Putney at a by-election in 1942. He is a pharmaceutical chemist, and a barrister, and has been secretary of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain since 1926. He is chairman of the London Conservative Union, and a member of the Home Office Poisons Board, and was secretary of the Parliamentary Medical Group. He was born in 1901.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Accrington Constituency – Biography of Blakeman

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Accrington Constituency – Biography of Blakeman

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Accrington

    CANDIDATE : Blakeman

    PARTY : L

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. K. Blakeman is 34. He was trained as a teacher before taking up a business career. He is now a partner in a firm of leather, asbestos, and woollen manufacturers at Par-tington. Formerly secretary of the old Buck-low Division Liberal Association, he is a member of the N.W. Area Liberal Discussion Group organizing committee. As an active member of the Society of Friends he served during the blitz with the Friends’ Rescue Service.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Barnsley Constituency – Biography of Walker

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Barnsley Constituency – Biography of Walker

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Barnsley

    CANDIDATE : Walker

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. H. Walker is a Barnsley solicitor and a member of a well-known Barnsley family. Born in 1908, he was educated at Cambridge, where he obtained his Law Tripos. Commissioned in The Green Howards he was seriously wounded at El Alamein in 1942, and later was awarded the Military Cross. He is a local preacher of the Methodist Church.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bexley Constituency – Biography of Heath

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bexley Constituency – Biography of Heath

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bexley

    CANDIDATE : Heath

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. R. C. Heath resigned his post as Civil servant in the Ministry of Civil Aviation when he became prospective candidate and joined a firm of merchant bankers. At Oxford, where he was a scholar of Balliol, he was president of the Union and chairman of the University Conservative Association. He served in the Army, 1940-46, and took part in the European campaign, commanding an R.A. unit. He now commands a T.A. Artillery unit. He is 34.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Edgbaston Constituency – Biography of Bennett

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Edgbaston Constituency – Biography of Bennett

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Edgbaston

    CANDIDATE : Bennett

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Sir Peter Bennett, the head of one of the largest Birmingham manufacturing concerns, succeeded Mr. Neville Chamberlain as M.P. for the division in 1940. He is 70. He represented the British motor industry at the Imperial Conference at Ottawa in 1932; and in 1938 became a member of the panel of industrial advisers to the Prime Minister. During the war he was, first, Director-General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply, and, later, Director of the Emergency Services Organization, Ministry of Aircraft Production, and Chairman of the Automatic Gun Board.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Northfield Constituency – Biography of Etheridge

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Northfield Constituency – Biography of Etheridge

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Northfield

    CANDIDATE : Etheridge

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. Etheridge, a Halesowen man, was born 38 years ago. Since his appreticeship to engineering he has been an energetic Labour leader. Secretary of the local Labour Party and the Halesowen Trades Council for some years, he was three times a Labour municipal candidate before joining the Communist Party. A district committee member of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, he has served on many trade union committees.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Yardley Constituency – Biography of Falconer

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Yardley Constituency – Biography of Falconer

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Yardley

    CANDIDATE : Falconer

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Falconer is a Scotsman and was born in 1909. When he was 20 he emigrated to Canada, where he remained until 1933. In the following year he joined the Communist 1arty. He is chairman of his branch of the transport and General Workers’ Union and also of the Shop Stewards’ Committee. He served for five years during the war.

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